Several French Warships On Way to North Africa
Reports from Lisbon claim Premier Petain authorized French naval officers to resume duties in North Africa and several warships have sailed from Toulon. Berlin notes ongoing, unsettled ties between Vichy and Germany. Budapest cites Nazi plans to move on Greece via Bulgaria if Britain attacks, with Germany likely to pause aiding Italy in Albania absent a Greek invasion.
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Vichy
Pierre Laval
Budapest
Hungary
Germany
Greece
Bulgaria
Britain
Europe
Albania
Balkans
Raider Fliers Raise German Flag After Narau Shelling
Melbourne reports a mystery sea raider that shelled Narau yesterday hoisted the German flag before opening fire. The government had earlier said the raider carried a Japanese name and flew the Japanese flag before the attack, making the new disclosure notable.
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Melbourne
Pacific
Narau
Turks See German Move Threatening Russia
Istanbul dispatch reports Turkish press emphasizing that Germanys deployment into Romania affects Soviet Russia and the Balkans. Aksham notes Germanys action could target Russia, and adds Moscow disliked Germanys initial troop shift, risking German Soviet ties as more troops move in.
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Romania
Russia
Balkan
Aksham
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Balkans
Canada to Become Main UK War Supply Base
London report quotes Canadian minister of munitions C. D. Howe stating Canada is the principal supply base for Great Britain. He cites orders totaling 390 million dollars, 55 airports completed, plan to produce 12 planes daily next year, a large gun plant, a secret weapon plant, and a navy expanding from 15 to 120 vessels with more ships planned within a year.
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C. D. Howe
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Great Britain
British Broadcasting Corporation
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B.B.C
British Empire
Roosevelt drafts record U.S. budget for next year
President Roosevelt is reported to have drafted a 17 billion dollar budget for the coming fiscal year with 10 billion for armament. If enacted the outlay would be the highest in U.S. history except for 1918, as budget director Harold D. Smith prepares to deliver the figures.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Harold D. Smith
White House
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United States
Great Britain
B T Donates To Empire Club Fund
The Junior Board of Trade members contributed a total of 35 dollars to His Majesty's Empire Club Fund this week. The effort was described as worthy and the members rose to the occasion.
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Empire Club Fund
Junior Board of Trade
His Majesty's Empire Club
Empire Club
Balkan Railway Service Curtailed
Bucharest dispatch reports a sharp cutback in railway passenger service starting January 1 and a broader civilian train service reduction in Hungary. Officials attribute the curtailments to stormy weather and adverse conditions affecting operations.
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Balkan
Bucharest
Hungary
British Planes Strafe Germans in Norway and France
British fleet air arm and RAF planes hit Haugessund in Nazi Norway, scoring hits on a supply ship and an anchored merchant vessel, with fires and explosions reported. Overnight raids also targeted Bordeaux Lorient and Le Havre in occupied France, hitting docks airfields and submarine bases.
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C.P
Fleet Air Arm
Royal Air Force
Haugessund
Admiralty
Air Ministry
France
Bordeaux
Lorient
le Havre
Butter Peg Keeps Local Prices Stable in Medicine Hat
In Medicine Hat butter prices hold steady despite inquiries. A Canadian Press report notes that wholesale prices will be pegged Saturday at the December 12 level for each locality, based on the solid form only. Local dairies await the southern Alberta zone price as the basis for future adjustments.
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Medicine Hat
Canada
Alberta
Greeks Gain Big Success at Tepelini
Greek forces on the Tepeleni front in central Albania report decisive victory over Italian positions. Greek artillery and bayonet assaults shattered forts, forced Italian retreat, and yielded prisoners and war matériel. Earlier reports noted local gains and about 200 prisoners.
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Tepelini
Athens
Tepeleni
Mussolini Urges Die-For-Italy Stand At Bardia
Captured Italian soldiers report Mussolini ordered Fascist forces at Libyan port Bardia to be ready to die rather than yield and predicted the siege would become a second Alcazar. Marshal Graziani is said to be reinforcing Tobruk as British officers expect Bardia’s fall. The 20,000-strong garrison reportedly faced inevitable defeat without the leader’s orders.
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Mussolini
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Graziani
Tobruk
Saturn
Gayda Warns United States Against Aid Via Ireland
Rome dispatch reports Editor Virginio Gayda claiming to speak for Germany and Italy warned the United States not to send convoys or supplies to Britain through Ireland. He called such aid an open neutrality violation and an act of U.S. intervention in the war.
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Germany
Italy
Virginio Gayda
United States
Britain
Eire
Turner Valley Oil Yield Set for January 1941
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Conservation Board in Calgary set January 1941 crude oil yield at 682000 barrels for the month, or 22000 barrels daily, with Turner Valley producing from 130 wells. Chairman Robert E. Allen said the 130 producers likely represent about half the eventual total in the field.
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Turner Valley
Petroleum and Natural Gas Conservation Board
Robert E. Allen
Local Rental Committee Appointed in Na naimo BC
A local rental committee for Na naimo British Columbia has been appointed with Judge Paul P. Harrison serving as chairman.
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Nanaimo
B.C
Paul P. Harrison
Herbert Greenfield Improves After Illness
Calgary reports Herbert Greenfield, Alberta Petroleum Association president and former premier, is much improved in hospital after a serious influenza attack.
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Calgary
Herbert Greenfield
The
Alberta Petroleum Association
Alberta
London Bomb Raid Rages Four Hours Amid Destruction
London endured a four hour mass bombing last night as German aircraft dropped incendiaries and heavy explosives across districts. A government statement reported deaths and extensive damage including a 1000-seat church gutted and an adjacent hotel destroyed. eleven people were rescued from an underground shelter.
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London
Press Association
Two Crewmen Lost In Charles Pratt Sinking
Capt Eric R Blomquist reports only two United States seamen lost to the sinking of the 8982 ton tanker Charles Pratt off the west African coast on December 21. The ship with 42 American crew carried 5 million gallons of fuel oil from Aruba and flew the Panamanian flag under Standard Oil ownership.
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New York
Eric R. Blomquist
Standard Oil
Charles Pratt
United States
Standard Oil Company of
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London
Panama Transport Company
Panama
Freetown
E. R. Blomquist
Severn
Aruba
Netherlands West Indies
Vancouver Butter Strike Called Off
The Housewives' League of British Columbia suspended plans for a butter strike after the Wartime Prices and Trade Board pegged wholesale butter prices at December 12 levels. Mrs S Hartley said they would wait to see how prices adjust as thousands of BC women planned a batter fast following rising costs. The league had protested price increases in a resolution to Ottawa.
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Vancouver
Housewives’ League of
British Columbia
Prices and Trade Board
B.C
Ottawa
Britain faces funds shortfall for arms in United States
A preliminary audit shows Great Britain will run out of cash to pay for arms and munitions purchases in the United States by early autumn next year.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
Siege of Bardia Progress Report Counts 38114 Prisoners
Cairo reports the British General Headquarters says 38114 prisoners have been counted in the offensive on Italian Libya. Among them 24845 are Italian officers and other ranks, with the rest non Italian. The siege of Bardia enters its 13th day as our artillery harasses the garrison.
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Cairo
Libya
Bardia
Italians Face Dual Threats in Albania and Africa
The report warns Mussolini's Italy may be crippled by British offensives in Libya and by a Greek breakthrough in southern Albania. Time is critical as falling ports and defenses could sideline Italy for years, with Germany slow to aid.
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Africa
Germany
Italy
Mussolini
Centre committee chooses name for servicemen club
The Downtown centre committee selects His Majesty's Forces Empire Club as the name for the servicemen's centre. Arthur Atkins of Ogilvies is due back from Winnipeg this weekend. Light snow yesterday left only about a quarter inch on the ground. A proposed name for city hills is sandy slopes.
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His Majesty’ S Forces Empire Club
Arthur Atkins
Ogilvies
Winnipeg
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